Hon. John Hargnett and Laura Platt

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Husband Hon. John Hargnett ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 13 Apr 1811 3 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Jun 1896 3 5
         Buried:  - Ligonier Valley Cemetery, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Frederick Hargnett (1774-1845/1845) 3 4
         Mother: Caroline Tosh (      -1871) 3 4

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       Marriage: 1850 4

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   Other Spouse: Susan Armor (      -1848) 3 4 - 1836 3 4

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   Other Spouse: Euphemia Bernetta McDonald (      -1908) 1 3 4 - 1854 3

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Wife Laura Platt ⁴

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1851
         Buried: 

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         Father: William Platt (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John Hargnett

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His constitution being a delicate one, he left the farm in 1830 and became a clerk in a store in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. Two years later he established himself in the mercantile business there, which he conducted personally until old age compelled him to retire from its active duties. He was for forty years associated in business with John McGowan. It was his custom to make two trips each year to Philadelphia to replenish his stock of goods for the coming season. These journeys were made on horseback or in a stage coach. Like all early merchants, he was obliged to carry with him the money to pay for the goods purchased, and this was no small burden, for they had to be paid for in gold or silver. He made these journeys regularly for twenty years, until the completion of the Pennsylvania railroad rendered the long turnpike journeys unnecessary. In politics he was a Democrat, casting his first vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832. In 1834 he was appointed postmaster of Ligonier under President Jackson, and held the office, though not consecutively, for a period of twenty-seven years. In 1863 he was elected by his party as a member of the state Legislature. He united with the Methodist church in 1830, and was one of its most active members until his death. For more than a quarter of a century, ending in June, 1870, he was superintendent of the Ligonier Methodist Episcopal Sunday school, which he helped to found when a young man.

In April, 1896, by a slight fall, he fractured his hip joint, the effects of which caused his death on June 13 following, in his eighty-fifth year.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 409.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 121.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 285.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 122.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 123.